Penske® Reviews
Received a phone call 20 minutes from pickup time that reserved truck would not be available due to mechanical issue. Ended up picking up rental truck at an alternate location. Rear lift gate option on truck unavailable at time of pickup despite being part of description of rental online. One way out of state destination rental.
They provided a usable truck and it was fully loaded. The truck was much larger than I needed, but that was OK, better too much than too little room. Truck was ready on time, and they processed me through promptly. I had planned on using a different truck rental company, but this was cheaper. I would not hesitate to use them again, if needed.
We rented a 26 foot truck and a 16 foot truck , plus a 4-wheeled car carrier for each truck (two car carriers). The 16 foot truck was fine. The 26 foot truck did not down shift reliably and consistently when going up hill and gave me a couple transmission warning alarms. I discussed this with the drop off location. One of the car carriers got a flat tire on the 3rd day. the 24/7 help line was NOT helpful. The wanted to send a maintenance truck out (which would take an hour or more to get to our location) and then they wanted to replace all 4 tires on the carrier which was not necessary. I cancelled the Help Ticket and got the tire repaired at a local tire store for $12.50 and was on my way in less than an hour. Penske did reimburse me the cost of the tire repair. This is the 9th time I've rented from Penske in the last 10 years --- generally the service has been good and the trucks have been reliable.
This was the fourth or fifth time we rented a 16 ft. truck from Penske to move items from FL to NC. Their trucks worked well. I would give them 5 stars, but unfortunately, the trucks I picked up during the last two rentals were not very well cleaned. In fact, the next-to-last truck I rented was filthy and had an odor of cigarette smoke (smoking is supposed to be prohibited in the trucks). At least Penske offered my a small refund of a portion of that rental. Overall I would recommend them.
I will always use Penske for truck rental. Their trucks are very clean and shiny on the outside and just as clean on the inside. They may cost a little more but much better than Uhaul, or especially Budget in quality. I've used Penske several times before as well as those other companies but once I got a Penske truck, I decided that was the company for me. Customer service was great. Truck runs great. Can't think of a negative.
Rented my 16-foot Penske truck through Home Dept - had to travel to the Home Dept location that had the equipment - a 30 minute drive - but they shaved a couple dollars off for my inconvenience. Other than the time it took to wait in line at the Customer Service desk to get checked out and returned, the truck, process and rental experience were favorable.
